Surging Dollar May Be Triple Whammy for U.S. Earnings - NYTimes.com

NEW YORK — The suddenly unstoppable U.S. dollar is posing a triple threat to American companies' profits: driving up the costs of doing business overseas, suppressing the value of non-U.S. sales and, perhaps most worryingly, signaling weak international demand.The dollar has been on a tear, with an index tracking it against six other major currencies notching roughly an 8 percent gain since the en